Happy Queen's Speech Day - Brought To You By HRH Prince Charles

 

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— Ken Frost (@ken_frost) May 10, 2022

Happy Queen's Speech Day!

 

Watch the #QueensSpeech live in the #HouseofLords on Twitter from 11.25am. Find out more about #StateOpening, the start of Parliament’s working year https://t.co/uizPQwhs4r https://t.co/NnN87418uo

— House of Lords (@UKHouseofLords) May 11, 2021

The Queen Nailed It!

Around 24 million TV viewers watched the Queen's Broadcast to the nation on Sunday evening

BBC One - 14.06m
ITV - 5.33m
Channel Four - 2.50m
Channel Five - 0.62m
BBC News Channel - 0.70m
Sky News - 0.76m

A total of 23.97 million not including other platforms pic.twitter.com/6hdqEyaszz

— lizo mzimba (@lizo_mzimba) April 6, 2020

Happy Queen's Speech Day!

1. What a strange day - Queen’s Speech normally a huge day, this year is basically a warm up for a Tory manifesto because very unlikely any of the measures will pass

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) October 14, 2019

The Queen's Speech October 14 - Well Then!

 

Johnson govt to hold Queen's speech on 14th October, will be confirmed by privy council at Balmoral today - No 10 says it's all biz as usual for a new govt, but has useful political side effect that denies MPs time to try to stop no deal

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) August 28, 2019

Nothing unusual here, except that in order for the Queen's Speech (ie the opening of a new parliament) to be held, the current parliament must be prorogued.

By happenstance, this gives the Brexit "rebel alliance" little time for mischief making.

I predict a wee bit of a row over this :) 

 

The Queen Indulges In a Spot of Trolling

Queen's Speech Slated For 21st June

Queen's Speech announced for next Wednesday

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) June 15, 2017